Have you ever lived in a place that had those sliding wooden doors over the closet? When they install those doors they smoothly roll from one side to the other, allowing you easy access to your clothes and things. After awhile, though, they can give you a lot of problems. Maybe the hardware becomes loose so the door wobbles rather than glides. Or, the tracks become dirty and the rollers no longer give the door a smooth movement. If you’ve had about enough of those faulty, non-sliding doors, take them down. Why not give the closet a make-over while creating a unique headboard for the room at the same time. A couple of sliding doors makes a pretty headboard that’s easy to hang.
After taking the doors down it’s necessary to remove all of the rollers and hardware. It’s a simple matter of unscrewing a few screws. You won’t have to worry about any nicks or marks left by the hardware; that side of the doors won’t show. Wipe the backside of the doors down with a dry cloth and you’ll be ready to hang them.
Screws or nails can be used to hang the doors but, unless you putty and paint them, you’ll be able to see them. If the doors are lightweight – which most sliding closet doors are – consider a different method. Using good quality, double-sided tape, or glue strips, you can hang the doors without hardware. Make strips of the tape or glue on the wall then press the doors against them.
There are many different headboards you can make with closet doors. Hang just one door, horizontally, or hang two doors, vertically. Place the bottom edge of each door on the floor, or raise them up, and create a much taller headboard. The tall headboard can look regal when you surround it with molding, or even mount wooden or wrought iron embellishments on the top corners. Create a different look by mounting such an embellishment right in the center of the complete headboard.
Although the wooden headboard looks lovely you can make it look extremely different by cutting pieces of fabric or wallpaper to be smaller than each door, and glue them onto the wood. Or, cut the material into shapes, like hearts, and create an arrangement on each door. You could even do a rubber stamp design to create a border around the headboard.
You’ll have a lot of fun making the closet door headboard; it will look lovely on the bed and will give a special element to the entire room. Since it only takes a short amount of time to make it, you won’t have to give up your entire weekend for this enjoyable project.